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Strategic Human Capital Management in the Context of Cross-Industry and Within-Industry Mobility Frictions

Starr, Evan - 2018

training provided, and wages marginally increase. These findings suggest that sufficiently strong and complementary mobility …

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Impact of Child Labour on Human Capital Development in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria

Nwogwugwu, Uche - 2017

In a bid to survive the hard times in the economy, some families have resorted to giving out their children as child labourers so as to earn income for subsistence. This phenomenon has scuttled efforts aimed at human capital development thereby increasing juvenile delinquency while perpetuating...

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Micro-Foundations of Firm-Specific Human Capital : When Do Employees Perceive Their Skills to be Firm-Specific?

Raffiee, Joseph; Coff, Russell Wayne - 2015

Drawing on human capital theory, strategy scholars have emphasized firm-specific human capital as a source of sustained competitive advantage. In this study, we begin to unpack the micro-foundations of firm-specific human capital by theoretically and empirically exploring when employees perceive...

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I Used to Work at Goldman Sachs! How Firms Benefit from Organizational Status in the Market for Human Capital

Bidwell, Matthew J.; Won, Shinjae; Barbulescu, Roxana; … - 2014

hand, that same signal can help workers bid up wages and capture the value of employers’ status. Exploring this tension, we … value of their ability early in the career, but must raise wages more rapidly than other firms as those workers accrue …

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Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

Hunt, Jennifer - 1999

Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990, the median real monthly wage of prime age east German workers rose by 83% in six years. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data to investigate the determinants of this wage growth and some of its implications. For the 1990-1991 period I...

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Micro foundations of earnings differences

Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017

This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....

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The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600-1850)

Chambru, Cédric; Maneuvrier-Hervieu, Paul - 2021

This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …

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Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition

Berger, Mark C.; Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2001

occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We hypothesize that the … training in workers? current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and earnings, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition …

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Worker training in a restructuring economy : evidence from the Russian transition

Berger, Mark C.; Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2001

occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We hypothesize that the … training in workers' current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and earnings, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403761

Heterogeneities in the Returns to Degrees : Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2008

Estimates of a high average return to a degree for UK graduates have provided a policy rationale for increasing the share of the costs of higher education borne by UK students over recent decades. We use evidence from a cohort of people born in 1970 to estimate hourly wage returns to a...

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